It's that time of year again!

These two lovely Christmas combo stamp sets ( Merry Christmas and Doodled Christmas) have been released this month by Kaiser Craft. I have been having a bit of a play with them and have come up with a few card ideas.
Everyone likes to receive handmade cards, so prepare to roll up your sleeves and get to work!

Card 1 - Stamp sentiment and tree on separate pieces of white card. Trim and round edges. Single mount the sentiment on red card, double mount the tree on green and red card. Trace of the stamped tree image with a fine glue pen and add glitter. When the glitter dries add the rhinestones. The paper range used is Cheer by Kaiser. The striped paper "Good Tidings" has been edged with a Holly border punch by Fiskars and applied to the card, a smaller piece of "Season's Greetings" has been used along the spine and edged with glitter. Mount images to card slightly overlapping.

Card 2 - Stamp sentiment on white card, trim closely and rub edges with a red ink pad. Add coloured rhinestones. For this card I have used Kaiser's Sublime range of papers. Cover just under 2/3 of the card with "Outrage"

and the rest with "Majesty". To hide the join I used red ribbon. On this card I have used a die cut tree and applied coloured rhinestones but you cound just as easily use another stamped image.

Card 3 - Stamp image (snowflake from the Merry Christmas Combo) 4 times, twice each in two different coloured inks.

Layer 1 - Cut out a circle as close as you can to the whole image (in dark blue).

Layer 2 - Cut a smaller piece using the stars as your guide line (light blue).

Layer 3 - Cut out the larger inner circle of the design (dark blue).

Layer 4 - Cut out the smaller inner circle (light blue).

Add complimentary glitter to the design, when dry, apply rhinestones and pearls.

For this card I have used dark and light blue cardstock, the dark blue covers the whole card and the light blue is a small strip which has been run the through the die cutting machine using the Cuttlebug embossing folder "Swiss Dots". It is now time to layer up your images using sticky foam pads (see smaller picture above). Adhere the raised images to your card, decorate with more pearls if desired and add a sentiment at the bottom.